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I fill my mind with whatever happens to be the contents of a room or a railway carriage as one fills a fountain-pen in an inkpot.
Archive 2009-04-01 2009
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I fill my mind with whatever happens to be the contents of a room or a railway carriage as one fills a fountain-pen in an inkpot.
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He kept his letters in its drawers, and his fountain-pen, and the bottle of ink, and all the oddments that he would have liked to carry with him in his pockets if it had not been for spoiling the set of his tunic.
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While he was speaking, he had pushed the prepared statement over to Rubashov, and laid his fountain-pen beside it.
Autumn Thomas Plastino Martin 2010
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The film implies there is a revolt against the dictatorship, and the evil robot built to kill humans does just that, thus explaining the current state of the world. 9 asks the twins about the talisman, but they seem to have on information on it. 5 then mentions that it looks like something the prophetic artist 6 Crispen Glover has been doodling with his fountain-pen fingers for months.
Review: 9 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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Plus some of the pictures in the picnic basket were done in fountain-pen, and I'm pretty sure some were done with house-paint, which I'd been meaning to try myself.
Duma Key King, Stephen, 1947- 2008
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Absurd as it might seem to me, a thousand miles from any human habitation and in danger of death, I took out of my pocket a sheet of paper and my fountain-pen.
Roving, roving, roving, keep that spindle rolling. « A Bird’s Nest 2006
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Absurd as it might seem to me, a thousand miles from any human habitation and in danger of death, I took out of my pocket a sheet of paper and my fountain-pen.
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He wrote a cheque with a fountain-pen heavily chased with gold.
To Let 2004
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It directs attention away from the central fact that poverty is poverty, whether the tool you work with is a pick-axe or a fountain-pen.
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